The combination of images and text used in picture books help captivate a reader’s attention to the story as a whole. One picture book that uses the relationship between image and text is Olivia by Ian Falconer. The pictures in the two-page spread above are an excellent representation of this relationship. First, the artwork is composed of gauche and graphite along with a digital reproduction of a Degas painting. The use of these mediums lends themselves to creating a value of light versus dark throughout
Abstract: This research paper examines a comparative analysis of English for Today of book four with The Path to English of same level. It underpins the differences between two books in the perspective of English teaching adaptability and understanding. It tries to dig out what sort of influences are held while teaching two different books for the same level of the student at the same second language situation. This also paves the ways of consideration in developing teaching materials for English
type of citation analysis and tools. The citations features of three popular citation analysis tools i.e. Scopus, Google Scholar andWeb of Science are discussed in detail.Ranking of information is a key aspects of information management in academic and research institutions. By examining changing needs and products, and to encourage the user, Library and Information professionals to understand and manage these resources and respond to the user needs. Keywords: Citation analysis, Web of Science, Google
useful to analyze the changes of amount and direction of changes in sales, cost of goods sold, operating expenses, operating profit, and different heads of expenses and incomes from one period to another. The significant points to be measured in this analysis are: a) The effect of inflation on value of the currency needs to be considered as absolute changes without accounting for real price changes may not accurate results. b) It involves only horizontal comparisons. Comparative statements pay no attention
The best-selling non-fiction book of Michael Lewis entitled The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is about the creation of the credit and housing market in the year 2000’s and its relationship to the emergence of the well-known financial crisis of the early 21st century. This book describes some of the key elements of credit swap industry that aimed to bet against the bubble mortgage debt obligation and gained profit during the 2007-2010 financial crisis. The book also discussed the opinions
BOOK REVIEW Title: Language, Culture, and Society: Key topics in linguistic anthropology Editors: Christine Jourdan and Kevin Tuite Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006 The book, Language, Culture, and Society is a part of ‘Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language’ series and aims to make contributions to the field of linguistic anthropology. This volume consists of 11 chapters with a long introduction. Each of chapters has written by different authors. In chapter
Autumn Stern Since its release, Their Eyes Were Watching God has faced more than its fair share of controversy. At first glance, one might assume this to be because of its mature subject material- after all, Janie is a grown woman for much of the book and has experiences reflective of being such in a poor black community in the early 1900s. However, the most contention comes from the narrative’s noticeable lack of a heavy political tone, something expected among black writers when it came out in
This is a five-minute short documentary played at Lincoln Center, and it aims to discuss the fact that an increasing number of people are addicted to the private space of their mobile phones when they are in the public space. The short film is inspired by my discovery that individuals look down at their mobile phones whether they are in the street, at a restaurant, or in a party with friends. Although they are in the public space, they do not spend the time to pay attention to what happens around
and it is now widely viewed as a global trend across developing countries. Various researcher and policymakers has been measuring poverty by income privation, rather than grassroots experience and trying to prove that poverty is feminizing. In her book, Gender, Generation and Poverty; Sylvia Chant (2007) challenges this widespread unreasonable conviction in the ‘feminization of poverty’. She carried out intensive fieldwork in three different countries to investigate the present condition and
INFORMATION GATHERING 2.1 SOURCES USED FOR RESEARCH WORK. Making a meaningful analysis requires gathering genuine and valid data. Data can be gathered from various sources which are categorized into primary and secondary data. Primary data is the first hand information which does not exist already and is being collected and gathered by the researcher himself. While secondary data refers to data collected by someone and made readily available other than the researcher himself. Relying on secondary